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Web Coolness: Pizza delivery by drones, the Toasteroid, and tattoos that are actually wearable controllers

Here are some of our favorite tech links from around the web this week. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did. These tattoos are actually wearable controllers. Hello, future. Pizza delivery by drones! Do you read Terms of Service contracts? You’ve got...

How to get rid of Unknown calls on your iPhone in a snap

by Liz Gumbinner | Tips and Tricks

If you’re getting more than your fair share of calls from that dreaded caller “Unknown” and want to know how to get rid of unknown calls, we’ve got your back. After all, ’tis the season for telemarketing, campaign donation requests, and...

How to preserve friendships (and your own well-being) online during a hostile election

by Liz Gumbinner | Social Media, Tips and Tricks

I won’t pull punches here; I am horrified, it not entirely shocked by the vast number of women in particular who have confessed how traumatic this election season has been for them, thanks in no small part to abuse on social media from those in their networks....

21 funny baby milestone photos every parent must have, that tell the whole truth about parenting

by Cool Mom Staff | Tips and Tricks

Let’s be honest, the best photos of kids are never the perfect ones. They’re not necessarily the photos that required hours of prep time picking out a perfect outfit, or a six-lollipop bribe for a smile. Looking back at our own favorite photos of our...

Our editors’ most helpful tech tips of the year: Editors’ Best Tech of 2015

by Cool Mom Staff | Editors' Picks of the Year

Over the course of the year on Cool Mom Tech, we’ve put together so many helpful tech tips and tricks, many of which are answers to reader questions we get via email, over Twitter, on Facebook, and heck, even from our friends and family in person! So we’ve...

4 tech summer camps for kids that parents will think are way cool, too.

by Nicole Blades | Tech Toys and Random Fun

Getting our kids on board with STEM early in the game seems like a great way to go. And just because it’s summer doesn’t mean that gentle parent-ly nudge in the right direction has to take a break. An easy way to get kids hyped about things like computer...

Location Services on smartphones: Why does every app seem to want access to it, and when should you turn it off?

by Nicole Blades | Tips and Tricks

I’m always a bit leery of apps the moment they ask to have access to my location. Sure, it makes sense with Google Maps, weather apps and certain social apps that help me locate a specific store or get a restaurant review. Those kinds of apps are more useful and...

KidsLink app: A smart alternative to social media oversharenting

by Nicole Blades | Lifestyle Apps

I didn’t even know there was a term for it, but of course there is. Oversharenting. It’s that thing that so many of us parents do on social media — especially on Facebook — where we share, or overshare, info about our kids that ranges from cute...

Web Coolness: Google Maps Pac-Man, Facebook’s new Scrapbook feature, and do you have a smartphone addiction?

by Cool Mom Staff | Link Roundups

Here are some of our favorite tech links from around the web this week. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did. This series of funny smartphone wallpapers remind you to look at your phone less. Speaking of looking at your phone less, Kristen’s...

Scrapbook by Facebook: What parents need to know about this new feature from Facebook for tagging kids.

by Kate Etue | Social Media

When I post a picture of my kids to Facebook, I tend to tag my husband, my parents and in-laws, maybe even aunts and uncles. If I want them to see the picture, I tag them. Because until yesterday, there hasn’t been a way to officially tag a photo of a child on...

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